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Ned Rorem | Musical Moments with Philip Brunelle

February 4, 2021

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In this Musical Moment, VocalEssence artistic director and founder Philip Brunelle shares insider information and beautiful music by the composer Ned Rorem.

Ned Rorem

Photo from www.theparisreview.org

b. 1923

Ned Rorem is one of America’s most honored and accomplished modern composers. He grew up in Chicago, where he studied the piano with Bonds and music theory with Sowerby. Rorem began studies at Northwestern University in 1940 but left in 1942 to enter the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. He spent the summers of 1946 and 1947 as a fellowship student at Tanglewood, where he was part of Copland’s composition class and formally completed his education at the Juilliard School. In 1949 Rorem went to Paris, where he studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Arthur Honegger. Though many of Rorem’s musical works exhibit advanced harmonic techniques, his use of tonal materials produces striking variety, complexity and, often, intensity. Rorem’s nearly 400 songs, for solo voice and piano and for voice and chamber ensemble, are his greatest legacy. His catalogue also features choral works and several operas. His song writing is graced by his skills at prosody, and by his choice of texts, earning him the nickname the “American Poulenc.” He currently resides in New York. 

Suggested choral pieces:

  1. Breathe on Me, Breath of God (Boosey & Hawkes M051465439)
  2. Three Motéts (Boosey & Hawkes M051458813) 
  3. In Time of Pestilence (Boosey & Hawkes 6357) 
Posted in: Musical Moments
Tags: Composers of the Late 20th-21st Century • United States Composers

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